campaign is not dead even though he hasn t been seen anywhere for a week and a half. if you unplugged rick perry at this point he would quietly, politically expire. below even rick perry in the polls are these two guys, george pataki and jim gilmore. governor pataki i can is on the right. gilmore will probably not qualify to make the debate next week but washington post reports it may not be a severe blow for gilmore since he is not campaigning at all. he is not holding events in the early states. he explained to the washington post he is trying to get on cable news now where people will describe him as running for president, even as he does nothing to prove it. i think even that will stop soon for governor gilmore. there s one last amazing, truly unexpected story in gutter ball today on the democrat side where
when barack obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he made one thing very clear. he does not belong on the professional bowling circuit. here s the big wind-up and the release and possible bad grip. possible slippery shoes. it was bad. but this year s crop for candidates is giving a new meaning to the term gutter ball. this may become a regular feet our this show. we re not going to play hardball here. we re going to play gutter ball and that s next. want to survive. .a crazy busy day? start with a positive attitude.
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there s one last amazing, truly unexpected story in gutter ball today on the democrat side where one candidate has picked up an unlikely patron saint in the form of late night comedian conan o brien. he launched a campaign to help get lincoln chafee to 1% in the polls so he didn t have to be at zero. right now no one is less popular than democratic hopeful and rhode island governor lincoln chaffe, who s currently at 0% in voting polls. i m not making it up. that s an actual headline. that s why i m taking a short amount of time here and making it my mission tonight to help lincoln chafee to get from 0% all the way to 1%. [ cheers and applause ] wouldn t that be amazing? the 1%. yes! be honest, i m not trying to get
medium hook potential and great soft touch in rotation. pete webber is at the bottom. whoa! lost it. lost it. when he says channel i think that is the term you and i would call gutter ball. channel! at 7:00 on this channel, msnbc, every day 7 p.m. eastern it is time for hardball with chris matthews. he is at 7:00. at 9:00 we are not hard ball. we are gutter ball. at least this year electoral politics, some of the most amazing things happening in the competition for office is among people who are failing radically and dramatically in the contests them bottom of the heap is full amazing stuff. look, for example, at this new